Heel-attaching machine.



J. F. STANDISH.

HEEL ATTACHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION min MIC-2.13. I915.

1,281,685. Patented Oct. 15, 1918.

UTT STAES PATENT FFTQE.

JOHN F. STANDISI-I, OF WINTHROP, M'ASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MEN TS, TO UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CORPORATION, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY,

A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

HEEL-ATTACHING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 15, 1918.

Application filed August 13, 1915. Serial No. 45,389.

provements in Heel-Attaching Machines, of-

which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, llke reference characters on the drawings indicating like parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to heel attaching machines, and more particularly to means for securing uniformity in the directional relation of heels and top lifts on right and left boots and shoes.

After a boot or shoe has been placed upon its support and. its heel portion embraced by a heel band or counter clamps, it is in some lateral swinging position relative to the nail block and driving means, and the operative must determine by his eye or repeated trials whether it is correctly pointed or not relative to the heel or top lift to be secured thereto. The heel band or counter clamps do not hold all boots and shoes of the same kind invariably in the same position by reason of the loose play between the boot or shoe and heel band or counter clamps, and in a series of boots and shoes, the heels and top lifts will be pointed in accordance with the swinging position as sumed by the boot or shoe in the heel band or counter clamps. The difiiculty in similarly pointing heels and top lifts in any series of shoes becomes emphasized, when, as in some heel attaching machines, the heel and top lift are attached while the boot or shoe is supported sole downward, because in such case the sole portion of the boot or shoe is obscured. The difliculty thus experienced in properly relating the longitudinal median line of the shoe and the heel or top lift will manifest itself also in variations of such relation in rights and lefts, so that a right shoe may have the heel or top lift secured thereto at one angular relation with respect to the longitudinal median line, while the left shoe may present a different angular relation.

An important feature of the present invention, therefore, consists in right and left forepart gages concurrently adjustable to corresponding gaging positions at opposite sides of the median line extending centrally between them longitudinally of the machine to insure like angular relations of heel parts on right and left shoes.

Another important feature of the invention consists of a toe rest against which the upper material at the forepart of the boot or shoe may contact and right and left gages movable to gaging positions for rights and lefts referable to the central portion of the upper material.

A still further important feature of the invention consists in a toe support adjustable to different positions as required by different kinds of shoes and provided with I right and left forepart gages movable with and relative to the toe rest.

Other features of the invention will be hereinafter described.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a View in perspective of a portion of a heel-attaching machine embodying a good practical form of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail, showing the toe rest and right and left gages associated therewith;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3, Fig. 2.

The machine to which the invention is shown as applied is illustrated and described more fully in United States Letters Patent to 'B. F. Mayo, No. 884,513, granted April 14, 1908, and while 'it has special advantages when used in connection therewith, it is also adapted to other machines where, owing to the swing of the boot or shoe, it is of importance to secure uniformity in the association therewith of some of the shoe parts throughout a series ofboots and shoes Ahead 3 carrying drivers 4 is secured to the upper end of the spindle 2, and has secured toits opposite end portions guides?) sustaining the lower ends of strong springs 6 7 block 8 provided with holes in line withthe drivers a, substantially as in the before mentioned patent.

A support 9 is secured to a rod 10 rigidly carried by the frame 1. The support 9 is provided with a horizontal guideway toreceive a member 11 which carries at its outer end a slide 12' As illustrated, the slide 12 is adjustable horizontally in a direction at right angles to the line of movement of the member 11, and is provided with a vertical guideway to receive the stem of a bracket 13 for supporting the band clamp 14.

Pivotally mounted at 15 is the jack 16 for supporting the shoe with its heel portion or counter in the band clamp 14:. A plate 17 is pivotally mounted at 18 for swinging movement across the upper surface of the nail block and carries a holder for a heel or a top lift which is to be positioned beneath the heel seat or heel of the shoe respectively. The parts so far described may be the same as more fully set forth in the patent referred to, and when the heel or top lift is secured in place, as described in said. patent, the angular relation between the longitudinal median line of the boot or shoe and that of the heel or top lift, or the pointing of the heel or top lift, as it is sometimes called, will depend upon the lateral position in which the toe portion of the boot or shoe is held with relation to the longitudinal median line of the machine during the heel or top lift attaching operation. In any series of boots or shoes of the same kind it is im portant that the pointing of the heels or top lifts shall be the same, and it is equally desirable that the pointing of the heel or top lift in a right shoe shall be similar or equal to that of a left shoe but in the opposite direction.

The difficulty of securing these results becomes apparent, when, as in the illustrated machine, the operatives view ofthe shoe sole is obscured. The present invention proposes to obviate this difficulty, and provide means whereby heels and top lifts may be secured to a series of boots or shoes, both rights and lefts, with the angular relation or pointing of the heels and top lifts similar or equal throughout.

To this end the present invention provides right and left gages which may be correspondingly and concurrently adjusted to similar positionsat. opposite sides of the median line of the machine passing centrally between themto indicate in the present instance by reference to, the toe or forepart of the upper material the position laterally of the median line of the machine to which the toe or forepart of the boot or shoe must be swung to maintain uniformity in the pointing of heels and top lifts in any series of right and left shoes.

In the illustrated embodiment of the invention the jack post 16 has projecting therefrom the arms 20 between which at 21 is pivotallyconnected the toe rest support 22. Extending from the toe rest support 22 between the arms 20 is the toe rest adjusting arm 23 provided with a series of openings 24 adapted to be engaged by a holding device or pin 25, the construction being such that by withdrawing the holding device or pin 25 the toe rest support may be swung about its pivotal mounting to carry the toe rest to different positions longitudinally of the shoe mounted upon the jack.

Mounted upon the toe rest support 22 is the toe rest, which in the present instance comprises a plate 26 extending transversely thereof and provided with a boss 27 from which projects the threaded post 28 carrying a threaded adjusting nut orhand piece 29. The post 28 is received in the hollow portion of the. toe rest support 22 and is maintained from turning relation therewith by suitable means, such as the pin or screw 30 which may engage a suitable key way or longitudinal slot 32 in the threaded post 28. Mounted upon the toe rest support 22 is-a finger 31 which engages a groove in the adjusting nut or hand piece to permit rotative and prevent longitudinal movement thereof.

In the present form of the invention the late 26 islocated above the forepart of the boot or shoe and to prevent injury'to the upper of the boot of shoe the plate 26 has secured thereto a pad or facing of yielding material 33, such as felt or other appropriate substance.

The plate 26has secured thereto the bearing lugs 34 which in the present instance rest upon the top of the plate and are attached thereto by screws, as shown. Each of the bearing lugs 3a is provided with a bearing 35 projecting in front of the plate 26 for the rotative support of a right and left threaded adjusting screw 36 having a hand piece 37 by which it may be rotated. Threaded upon the right and left threaded portions respectively of the screw 36 are the right and left gages 38, the lower pointed.

ends 39 of which overlie the front face of. the. pad 33 and extend to within a short distanceof the lower face of the pad, the

construction being such that by rotation of.

the screw 36 the right and left gages 38 may be concurrently moved longitudinally thereof corresponding amounts atopposite sides of the median line of the machine.

passing centrally between them so that right and left boots and shoes having a similar swing in opposite directions may be positioned' similarly with respect to the median line of the machine to preserve the same pointing for the heels and top lifts on rightsand lefts. Y 1

A boot-or shoe having been placed upon the jack with its heel portion or counter in the band clamp, the operative may readily adjust the toe rest support 22 to position the toe rest pad to contact with the forepart of the upper preferably just back of the tip line. He will then adjust the right and left gages concurrently equal amounts to corresponding positions at opposite sides of the median line of the machine as required by the particular swing of the series of boots and shoes to be treated, and will place the central portion of the tip line or upper at the toe portion of a boot or shoe below the appropriate gage 39 by swinging the toe portion of the boot or shoe laterally and since the right and left gages have been moved laterally equal amounts into gaging position, the proper similar pointing of heels and top lifts attached to all boots and shoes of that series will be similar and uniform in both rights and lefts.

The present invention may be employed in determining the relative swing between boots or shoes and heels, or between boots or shoes and top lifts to be attached to the heels, and may be advantageously employed Wherever the relative swing of a boot or shoe and a heel art is to be determined and made uniform f dr any series of shoes. The term heel part is herein employed in its general sense to include either heels or top lifts or both.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. In a machine for attaching heel parts to boots or shoes, the combination of boot or shoe supporting means, right and left gages located at opposite sides of the median line of the machine and cooperating with the forepart of a boot or shoe to indicate the lateral swing thereof relative to a heel part, and means for concurrently adjusting the right and left gages toward and from said median line to corresponding gaging positions at opposite sides of said line.

2. In a machine for attaching heel parts to boots and shoes, the combination of a toe rest against which the upper material at the forepart of a boot or shoe may contact, and right and left forepart gages referable to the central portion of the forepart upper material and concurrently movable to correspfonding gaging positions for rights and le ts.

3. In a machine for attaching heel parts to boots and shoes, the combination of a toe rest adjustable to different positions, right and left forepart gages movable with the toe rest aS it is adjusted, and means for concurrently adjusting the right and left gages independently of the toe rest to corresponding gaging positions for right and left shoes.

4. In a machine for attaching heel parts to boots and shoes, the combination of a support for a boot or shoe, a toe rest adjustable toward and from said support, right and left forepart gages movablewith and relative to the toe rest, and means for simultoneously adjusting the right and left gages in opposite directions to corresponding positions for right and left shoes.

5. In a machine for attaching heel parts to boots and shoes, the combination of a toe rest, means for supporting the toe rest above the forepart of a boot or shoe to be treated, right and left gages for indicating the lateral swing of the toe portion of the boot or, shoe by reference to the upper material of the boot or shoe at the forepart, and means for concurrently adjusting the gages to corresponding gaging positions on opposite sides of the median line of the machine passing centrally between the gages.

6. In a machine for attaching heel parts to boots and shoes, the combination of a support for a boot or shoe, a toe rest and right and left gages mounted above the forepart of a boot or shoe sustained by said support, and means for concurrently adjusting the gages to corresponding gaging positions at opposite sides of the central portion of the toe rest.

7 In a machine for attaching heel parts to boots and shoes, the combination of a support for sustaining a boot or shoe sole downward, a toe rest above the forepart of the boot or shoe sustained by said support, right and left gages carried by the toe rest, and means for concurrently adjusting the gages to gaging positions at opposite sides of the feltlitl portion of the toe rest for rights and e ts.

8. In a machine for attaching heel parts to boots and shoes, the combination of a support for sustaining a boot or shoe sole downward, a toe rest sustained above the forepart of a boot or shoe mounted on said support, right and left gages in front of the toe rest above the forepart of the boot or shoe, and means for adjusting the gages in corresponding positions at opposite side portions of the toe rest for rights and lofts.

9. In a machine for attaching heel parts to boots and shoes, the combination of a support for boots or shoes, a toe rest, right and left gages adjustably mounted on the toe rest, and means for concurrently adjusting the gages to gaging positions on the toe rest for rights and lefts.

10. In a machine for attaching heel parts to boots and shoes, the combination of a support for supporting a boot or shoe sole downward, a toe rest mounted above the forepart of a boot or shoe on said support,

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